Each man has a soul   That struggles to escape   And in the shallows of his dreams   We can often see its wake      For we all have our secrets   That we all keep deep inside   Away from light, in darkest night   Where it's always safe to hide      Away from all that we should meet   Less someone else should share   That thing that hides inside our soul   That we pray was never there      And out upon that ocean   A lifetime from the shore   Miguel stood his night watch   Recalling everything he saw      For he was a deckhand      Aboard the "maersk dubai"   He had sailed her round the world   From hamburg to sendai      But this trip had been different   More than any he had known   For on board there was an evil   And the evil had been shown      For halfway through this voyage   They had found two stowaways   That the captain had thrown in the sea   And left them to the waves      And when he tried to close his eyes      And pretend he did not know   The evil did not go away   But used the time to grow      For later on that same trip   They found a stowaway once again   But the captain soon met this one too   And brought him to the same cold end      He wondered what that boy thought inside   Before that final sleep   When water was all that was around   And his lungs had screamed breathe deep      He wondered what went through his mind   As he gasped for air   And the last moment when he prayed for help   To find nobody there      He wondered to himself   If he could have been the one   To stand up at that moment      And say this cannot be done      To stand up to the captain   And say this thing it cannot be   But there is nothing closer to god on earth   Than a captain on the sea      And he was just a deckhand   With no right to plead the case   Of this stranger in their midst   And so he kept his place      And what is done is done   And undone cannot be   And so he pushed it from his mind      And stared out across the sea